The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 24, 1941, Page 1

Aasclated Pre Day Wi For 61. Viactes Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 175. Opposes Measure By Sen«|\"\@ OOO DMM Mm @, | To Hold Amy Indl The Kry THE SOUTHERNMOS “IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF CITY Aluminum contributions to the | nation's defense this afternoon were being picked up in trucks all over Key West as the joint Wes T NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDA Y, JULY 24, 1941 { Citizen House Committee “RUSIANS ON SIBERIAN FRONT ~~ ApproalOF Program Ging Key West, Florida. has the most equable climate in the country; with an average | range of only 14° Fahrenheit 7 | Recommends By Japan In Pa Appears Definitely On The Way | Long Expected sch Shea } Lions Club-state defense coun- sil drive opened at 2 o'clock. | ator Taft To Fix Service| STRANGE LOOKING Boy scouts and members of “ 2 Trainin At Sixte | HOG BANANAS jother children’s groups, after a 8 en ARE GROWN HERE | meeting with Mrs. William | Month: | Warren yesterday afternoon at) s jLa Concha park, began a house- { to-house canvass early in the | day. One ‘of the first contributions; was brought to The Citizen of-| +}fice early ‘this morning. when Staff Sgt. 'George H. Nodine un- loaded a collection of aluminum ‘articles assembled at army bar- A twist in natu nature's. plan- ning department has given to Olivia ' street,~one of the strangest looking “hog”: ba- nanas the neighbors can. re- member. It's a triplet,'all «in one, with the ends of three ba- nanas plainly distinguishable, but the top part all. growing into a single fruit. Owners of banana plants here say they have seen months, instead of the original plenty. A gerry ware year. General Marshall declared he | veewrercrs (Ry Associated Presa) WASHINGTON, July 24—Gen, George C, Marshall, army chief cf staff, said today he would op- - Reon Henderson t { William Knudsen DESCRIBING Price Stabilizer Leon Henderson as “a dangerous | figure," OPM Chief William Knudsen: yesterday said Henderson's | Pregram of auto production cuts wquld have men walking the streets |! \ racks. in search of work. Knudsen admitted there is a “little dispute” be- { Mrs. Warren, chairman of the tween the two offices. H i woman's committee of the state ead ; defense council, urged all house- | <= "No Seloment Reached. As Pose a compromise measure pre-} sented by Senator Robert Taft (R,-O.), which would fix selec- | tive service training at 16| | cooking utensils and similar art- ‘icles as possible. Aluminum articles will | piled on the courthouse ses as | the collection progresses. Twelve (My Azsociated Press) WASHINGTON, July 24-The} SIIB S SaaS Lipa appropriations committee | MEN. ELIGIBLE FOR ‘SELECTIVE: TERNS today recommended approval of a} ($291,428,500 public works pro-| gram at navy yards and statians | in an $8,000,000,000 supplemental | national defense appropriation | measure, | Expenditures recommended in} the committee report include: Key West naval station—Hous- ing for enlisted men, laundry and/ ammunition storage facilities, | ; $332,000; floating crane, $400,000; | '35-ton locomotive crane, $50,000; | | additional facilities for Key West’ Youngunie ok Key West who have reached their twenty-first birthdays, but who have failed to register for army selective service, are Improvements At Key West i | (iy Anwoctated Press) | NEW YORK, July 24.—Japan'’s ~ | long-expected military show~ | down: fy thie: Peciite.- tose. aa News of fighting between the | Japanese and Russians came from Shanghai, where it had been un- would approve Taft’s compromise ‘trucks, each with a Lions club ‘naval air station, $375,000. i om alr » peal Sao as having merit in times of ‘FOUR DEFENDANTS member, were patrolling the city | The committee also recom: | eligible men have been drift- peace, but that under present ‘in the afternoon, while the; | mended $100,000 for construction | ing into her office to register conditions it would be impos- | MUST LEAVE CITY: poponty a) bons gang was help- ; ‘of two swimming pools at Guan-| in the past few weeks. sible to determine when and eed, alice aaa BULLETIN. —— ‘have psgyftosea ta. een paceratpeiniar Bigg Po where a full strength army | : NS Ceraerrc, P08 Jean " b Ny ees le sae ORDER ISSUED BY JUDGE AL- EW tee gee from 40 cents to 61% cents an men who have not register- - E | . . Fay this after- hour. ed to warn them that they The general has urged that BURY PRESIDING AT noon told representatives of two Luis Avila, president of the Congress declare an unlimited CRIMINAL COURT BEGINS TODAY striking laborers’ unions he would white laborers’ union, said yester- RETURNS AS FILED imprisonment if thev fail to national emergency, giving Presi- dent Roosevelt power to hold the army indefinitely, PRISON OFFICER i dell, charged with vagrancy, and | Thelma Mackey and Millard Cobble, charged with open use of 2 pene eK today were ~ PAID VISIT yeaah tne ewes Albury, hold- ling criminal court in chambers. | Judge Albury instructed Sher- J. E. Creech, officer of the iff Berlin Sawyer to detail a state prison inspection board of {deputy to take the four to the Jacksonville, today stopped in Key West to make a_ study of conditions in the county jail. Creech talked with © Willie| Kemp, county jailor, and with prisoners to learn of living con- ditions in the jail. bus and see that they actually leave the city. Sentence in ali |four cases will be deferred from Louis Fridell and Lillian Fri-| ' day to day, giving the judge au-' thority to. impose sentence if any of the defendants ever ap- ‘pear here in the future. Aerial Activity Dominates Fighting On Three Fronts (By Associated Press) Furious aerial activity feeds nated the European war on three fronts yesterday as, the Nazi luft- waffe bombed Mgscow for the third time and claimed destruc- | tion of 111 Russian and 54 British | planes in the last 24 hours, Moscow. said thg German raid} was of little importance, with | only eight or 10 bombers actually | reaching the. city, but ~ Berlin! claimed heavy damage and re-| ported vast new fires raging in the‘ heart of the Russian capital. { German bombers during. the night were blasting at scattered i cities on both east and _ west coasts of England, and the Royal Air Force smashed back with its third straight night of bombard- ment at Frankfort-on-Main and; Cologne. I | } lance and “difficult terrain”, j the Buildings along the south Brit- ish coast shook today with the ex- plosions from the third RAF day- | light attack of-the morning on Calais and neighbéring)' French { ports. Italians Hit Warship Italian bombers were declared in Rome to have damaged a Brit- ish battleship, sinking a destroyer and “several” merchant ships, and shooting down seven RAF fight- ers in an attack on a convoy. The Italian communique said two British ships, one of 15,000 tons and another of 10,000 were destroyed by torpedo-carrying planes. London countered with the lelaim that three Axis ships, to- talling 19,000 tons, were destroyed in a Mediterranean attack. Neither Berlin nor Moscow ;made any specific claims ground warfare during the day. “According To Plan” The German high command, de- scribing stubborn Russian resi: said proceeding invasion. was \ slowly, but “according to plan.” Moscow said heavy fighting was continuing along the entire | frontier, with a strong’ German fenders were said to ‘be holding their own. British military leaders, mean- in} | while, intimated that the German {army may be slowing down for a | rest and a chance to replace equip- i | i Shatin Bs ity etalon ment. It was pointed out in Lon- don that the Nazi army usually relaxes its pressure after about | two weeks of fighting in every | campaign, and it has now been Luella Pell, lovely wife of the handsome Henry Pell, begins her ; honeymoon with only one small) reservation. It is that Henry! |may not have forgotten Marie Mason, the gitl from their home | town who went to New York and} made.a great name on the air. And as “Heartbreak Honey-| moon”, the new Associated Press| serial, opens, Henry and Luella are themselves about to begin a! new life in New York, where Henry has captured a good new job. It was hard’.to avoid hearing Marie’s lovely voice, because it was forever coming out of every! loudspeaker-in the neighborhood. | It was equally hard to avoid ask- ing Marie up for dinner—after all she was an old friend. But it was just as difficult for Henry to refuse Marie’s offer of help to get him into radio, and! that was where the tangle start- ed. Marie hadi been in love with Henry, once upon a time, and Marie had the atmosphere of aj new and glamorous world about her. Luella found the competi- tion difficult. What Luella did about it you} will find in “Heartbreak Honey- | moon”, beginning in The | today. Watkins E. Wright, hes “Heartbreak -Honeymoon’’. is. the}, new ‘Assoc Press sefial, has} been represented once before in | this list. That was with “Magic; Spring”, but for it Mr. Wright, , who needs two names because he | push near Smolensk, but the de-: | fighting steadily for more than! two weeks since the last slowup in Russia. writes many novels, used the pseudonym Allen Eppes. Mr. Wright was born in Vir- ginia, and although now he lives in New York he has spent much time in those states, and — often uses them as settings for his stories. He first “broke into” the writ- | ing game.as a high school stu- dent in Asheville N. C. That was with a play called “Put It On! The Map”, which was first per-j| formed professionally and later | published. Another play, “Helen Preferred”, was done for the ra- dio. His fiction has appeared in| a great many magazines, among | them the New Yorker, Ce Humor and Young’s. For more than eight years he has been unde patie. t, to two book publish if: ‘pub- lished a long list of novels, of which “Heart's Haven” is one of | Tecommend to the navy depart- | ment.at Washington that their de- mand for a 62'2-cent pay scale be accepted. Lieutenant Fay. ending @ con- ference with the union men a few | Minutes before 4.o'clock, telephon- ed to. Washington immediately to | seek approval for a year’s contract | at the new pay scale. Lieut. Albert J. Fay, navy pub- lic works officer, shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon had called to his office representatives of four construction companies hold- ing government contracts here, and the leaders of nearly 1,000 laborers who walked - off their jobs yesterday at noon. Labor Conciliator W. ‘P. .Mc- Allister, meeting with the com- pany. and union representatives, was expected to promise a quick survey of labor conditions in Key | West if the men would return to their jobs tomorrow. Neither side in the wage dis- pute appeared to believe, how- | ever, that the laborers would be! willing to return to work at this time without the Charles Frow: Russell Died Last: Night: From: Electric. Shock At Local Navy Yard Naval and civil aufborities to. | juny 't to-; day launched separate investiga- | tions into the death of Charles Frow Russell, 45-year-old civilian | | electrician’s helper, who was electrocuted while working on a steel girder at the station last night. Lieut. Comdr. Henry L. Naff, navy public relations officer, an- nounced an officers’ board of in- quiry was formed this morning to study the accident. _ Russell’s death was the second within the week at the navy station, follow- ing the drowning Sunday morn-! ing of Carl Minor, negro cook. Magistrate Franklin Arenberg | meanwhile had named a coroner’s day his office had not called the strike, and he refused to attend, a meeting last night at which members of the group agreed to stay off the job until their pay, demands are met. With J. RB. Davis, president of | ‘the.negro laborers, ‘presiding at a joint meeting, the striking work- | !men last night heard McAllister | plead for a return to work. After hearing both McAllister SEVENTY PERCENT ON BUSI- NESS AND SIXTY PERCENT | On RESIDENCES. . i ‘ Gilbert Freeman, reptesenta- | tive of Comptroller William | Lee, today was informed by increase they: THE MAXWELL CO., the most popular. H WAS ARRESTED WHOLESALE Furniture, Furnishings, Restaurant | | ST. LOUIS—Emmanuel Born-| stein of this city, was arrested for ; disturbing the peace. He held} two men at bay with a shotgun, | thinking they were burglars, and iowa they were making a ae call, Equipment and 711 North Beach WILL BE IN KEY WEST AT NORTH BEACH INN _ THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY For Interviews or Contacts With Anyone Interested and W, P. Thurston, president of County Tax Assessor Claude A. | Thurston Construction company, Gandolfo that 70 percent of the laborers voted to remain off; Monroe county business opera- the job. They agreed not to tors have filed personal property picket. | returns, while about 60 per cent Thurston, describing the situa-|0f the residence returns have tion before leaving for the mect- | been filed. ing at Lieutenant Fay’s office to-|_ Freeman telephoned from Tal- day, said it appeared the laborers | !ahassee for a report on assess- | would -be forced to hold a new | Ment figures here, which it is un- election before negotiations could derstood will be used in an ad- continue. | dress on taxes by Gov. Spessard The strike affects the Thurston |. Holland tonight. _ company, Southeastern Construc-| Gandolfo, who said he was tion company and the Mackle Pleased by the response of Mon- | company, all working on navy Toe county residents in getting; ‘projects, as well as the Paul H.|their returns to him, warned Smith Construction company, | that there will’ be no further ex- | working on a low cust housing | tension of time beyond the pres-' project. |ent deadline, Saturday. Gandolfo said he was instruct- | ed by Freeman to explain to | those who have not filed returns! that penalties will be attach mui cles FICHT T GOES ON i jury to hold an inquest into the electrocution this afternoon at 5 NEW YORK, July 24.—Reports | o'clock. ‘of fighting between Ecuador and | Jurors are Frank O. Roberts,| Peru today continued to conflict { foreman; James Curry, Frank |@s both sides claimed their bor- | Figueredo, Leon Roberts, Johnny | 4¢! defenders . were _ throwing | back strong enemy attacks. E. Sands and Winfield Russell. Information reaching here in- hemes mere mane sr dicated neither side is attacking . | strongly, and the war up to now | is believed to have consisted of | Couns Clerk Ross O. Sawyer ® series of border clashes be- ! tween frontier patrols. tomorrow will drive his six-year- Argentina is said to have for. ,old grandson, Robert W. Sawyer. | warded an urgent plea to both | to Miami for a physical. examina- | countries to, stop fighting and | | tion. ‘The child is the son of Mr. submit. their ‘and Mrs. Ross C. Sawyer, Jr. (ity Axnoelated Prema) Venetian Blinds 4 , Britain im a recent address, in ment. immediately when thé‘'deadline |’ : dispute | arbitration: by th, PanvAmercan 9h ‘ i t | are liable to prosecution and { i veesrerrre tea lash. a _ Labor. party ie oR (Ry Aanorinted Verena) LONDON, July 24—Foreign Minister Anthony Eden today called on Spanish Premier Gen. Franciseo Franco to end his anti- British. attitude, or suffer a withdrawal of Britain's economic aid in Spain. Speaking before the house of commons, Eden said Franco had failed to show good -wijl toward | ‘colony, and Japanese: battleships were said to have loomed up off the southern coast. 2 British reports from. she ee : eet which he spoke of an inevitable gs. basta ee : Axis, victory. peed nag ow a Without good will on the part | naval and ‘ of Spain, Eden explained, there | government in can be no continuation of pres-; ses to ent British economic. assistance | | to the civil war-torn country. petiisiaiascommse camel FASTER: AND: FASTER :) a in ‘the AAU Gaee ships the other day, Grover ;Klemmer of California U. not‘ Fonte pak world ‘record of 46 seconds but the first six finishers were clocked in better than 47. seconds. War Secretary 0